Twitter for iPhone platform has been released and is available for download. Earlier, Twitter strategically acquired Atebits in an undisclosed price resulting into the acquisition of Tweetie which is the iPhone’s most popular Twitter client. Tweetie has been coined as “Twitter” and is labeled as a version 3.0 which now comes as a free download from its $2.99 price tag earlier.
The whole story of developing official app started by Fred Wilson, a Twitter board member and an investor with Union Square Ventures. He said in a blog post that instead of fixing holes in Twitter’s product, twitter should build its own “killer apps”. The statement shook the whole third party developer community. Soon after, Twitter acquired popular twitter client “Tweetie” instead of developing its own twitter app that would otherwise take time. Read more..
Now, Twitter has its own official version of twitter client for the three major growing smartphone platforms like iPhone, Blackberry and Android. We may soon see unofficial Twitter mobile clients like Echofon, TweetDeck, Twitdroid or Seesmic packing their bags.
It is also being reported that Twitter will be launching twitter app for iPad and its own URL shortener service in replacement of bit.ly!
Main Features of Twitter for iPhone App
- Handle multiple Twitter accounts
- Explore all of Twitter, from your own timeline and mentions, to the favorite tweets of your followers and friends
- Support Offline Mode: Read, tweet, favorite, follow, save to Instapaper and more even when you don’t have a connection. Your actions will be synced as soon as you go back online
- Allow you to post photos and videos. You can even configure your own custom image host.
- Compose screen multiple-attachments manager
- Link Twitter contacts to Address Book contacts
- Follow, unfollow, block and unblock from multiple accounts simultaneously
- Threaded Direct Messages and improved conversation navigation
- Translate tweets and preview short URLs
- Safari bookmarklet support for easily sharing links
There are other such powerful features available with the app.
Download Twitter App for iPhone now!
Twitter for iPhone via iTunes Link
via – MacStories